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I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.

The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album.

I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world.

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.

As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life.

At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no reason other than posterity.

My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room.